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Managing Sciatica Pain

Sciatica is the type of pain that affects the sciatic nerve, which is a nerve that goes from the back of the leg and up to the lower part of the back and causes a need for sciatica pain relief.

A pinched sciatic nerve normally only causes pain and problems on one side of your body, but this pain can go clear from the back to the thigh and down your leg and require sciatic nerve relief. If this pain is bad enough, you may feel as if you have to go to the emergency room in order to get sciatica pain relief.

When you suffer from sciatica pain it can range from mild to being extreme. Some say it feels like a sudden electrical shock or a pins and needles strange feeling. In order to get sciatic nerve relief you need to see a special sort of back doctor and get stretches for sciatica, pain medication or sometimes surgery to fuse the vertebra together so they don’t move and rub onto each other and cause sciatica pain.

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What causes a pinched sciatic nerve?

Sciatica may be due to the root of the lower or upper spine being irritated or damaged, as well as degenerative spine disease, lumbar spinal stenosis or narrowing of the spinal canal, complications of pregnancy, cancerous tumors, or a slipped disc, which is also called spondylolisthesis.

Your vertebra discs are made of sections of cartilage that are placed in-between each spine bone. They are a gel-like consistency and help to keep your spine supple and able to move, as well as work like shock absorbers so your bones are pillowed when you move around. Being soft, they can be damaged through an injury or blow or through other types of trauma like a car accident.

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If the covering to this disc area rips, tears or is otherwise perforated, the gel material leaks out and that can cause pain. This pain can be treated with pain medications such as over the counter pills like Tylenol, aspirin or Aleve or prescription drugs such as narcotics or tricyclic antidepressants, disc surgery, steroid injections into the back, special exercises or physical therapy sessions and stretches for sciatica.

All in all, sciatica pain is an unpleasant occurrence that requires some sort of treatment from a back doctor or other specialist. If you need sciatica pain relief then you need to start a regime of sciatica stretches or otherwise take pain medications or undergo surgery.